The Song of Hannah: A Novel by Eva Etzioni-Halevy

I loved learning more about Hannah. I enjoyed the viewpoint the author, Etzioni-Halevy, used to depict the emotions involved when a husband takes more than one wife as was often the custom. The raw feelings she exposes and the way women handle the ...situation can be felt across the ages. Although it is no longer customary to have multiple wives, affairs are all too common and the results are strkingly familiar and the resulting pain it causes to the psyche of a woman does not appear to have changed too much over time. On the other hand we do not often see in today's society the kind of blind faith Hannah had that gave her the strength to place her son in the hands of the priests (at the age of 3) because she made a promise to God that she would do so.